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felt nothing of this nature , but his hope rose to joy in the glorious prospect before him , and he appeared all the hero in the
agodear Lord that bought him . " " The mixture of pain and pleasure which attended it /* says Mr . Billingsley , " I thinks I shall not
nies of pain ; and longing to be dissolved and to be with Christ , lie thought it needful ' io check the triumphs of his soul , least he should be transported above
measure . " In his last sickness , there was a difference , very much probably , owing to the influence of bodily disorders on the mind . He himself , in a discourse which Mr . Billingsley had with him , two or three days before his end , ascr ibed his fears to the sense he
had of the vast importance of dying safely , —and the terrible apprehensions be conceived at the thought of a bare possibility of a miscarriage . He , afterwards , owned that his fears were imaginary , and compared them to the
fears of a man on the top of a great precipice , though he was , by a chain or some other way , effectually secured , and knew himself to be so . At the same time , Mr . Stogdon expressed a rational evidence and satisfaction as to his
safety : u He hoped and believed that in a few days it would be better with him than ever ; " and , * that at the resurrection he should walk ofi his high places /' lie was far from falling into the superstition of those who receive the sacrament on a death-bed , to
Supply the deficiencies of a good life ; yet he desired that it might be administered to him , " willing $ hus to commend his soul to the
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in haste forget . " I shall only observe , that his behaviour on that occasion , was most decent and solemn . The first thing he said before it , and as he took the bread , was in these words ; * I die . inthe sentiment , in which I lived ; " the last thin ? he said when he had
taken the cup was this , ** I expect to drink no more of Ibis fruit of the vine , till I drink it new with thee in thy kingdom /* He made the happy exchange on Tuesday , Jan . 2 , 1728 , in the 36 th year of his age , which he
would have completed , if he had lived a week longer . On the Friday following , he was interred in the parish church . His burial there was disputed , on the pretext that the remains of such a person were unworthy to be deposited in
consecrated ground . But the minister of the parish freely consented to it , as did the church-wardens , who had been always very friendly to him . The funeral
sermon , from Isa . xliii . 3 « was preached , at the request of Mr , Stogdon , both as to the preacher and the text , by his friend , Mr . Billingsley ; first from the pulpit of the deceased , and in the evening of the same day , from that of the Rev . Thomas Lucas ,
Pastor of the Baptist congregation , in Trow bridge , to a larger auditory .
V \ To be concluded in our next * ] "
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62 Memoir of the Rev . Hubert Stogdon .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 62, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/6/
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